Michael Whelan

Michael Whelan is an artist living in California who illustrated artworks for many careers in his early years. Illustrating book covers for horrors, fantasy and science fiction book; Michael Moorcock;s Elric series, Anne McCaffrey and Pern's Dragon Aboard. And also John Carter's Princess of Mars series. His artwork is more traditionally similar to paintings before digital illustration was common

Renegades of Pern

I find his work really good and how he pictured them to relate to the stories he's read to get the settings, characters, aliens and creatures as how the writers thought of them. I think it's good for the illustrator and writer to discuss ideas of how the artwork would look and what it could need then one person doing it themselves. He was one of the artists who brought a new world of fantasy and science fiction to many artists in the later years.